Bioflavonoid (Hesperidin) Restrains Protein Oxidation and Advanced Glycation End Product Formation by Targeting AGEs and Glycolytic Enzymes - Mohd Shahnawaz Khan; Md Tabish Rehman; Mohamed A Ismael; Mohamed F. AlAjmi; Ghaida I. Alruwaished; Majed S. Alokail; Mohammad Rashid Khan (Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2021)

In-Silico Analyses of Nonsynonymous Variants in the BRCA1 Gene - Sidra Arshad; Irfan Ishaque; Sidra Mumtaz; Muhammad Usman Rashid; Naila Malkani (Biochemical Genetics, 2021)

Annotated checklist of ponyfishes (Perciformes: Leiognathidae) from Bangladesh, the northern Bay of Bengal - S.M. Sharifuzzaman; Istiuk Ahammed Rubby; Kazi Ahsan Habib; Seishi Kimura; Md. Harun Rasid; Md. Jayedul Islam; Amit Kumer Neogi; M. Shahadat Hossain (Journal of Fish Biology, 2021)
Information on the taxonomy of ponyfishes (Leiognathidae Gill 1893) from Bangladesh was hitherto inadequate and details of some species were lacking. Based on specimens, the present study reports 12 species of ponyfishes from the coasts of Bangladesh with short descriptions of their diagnostic characters. Six of these species, Aurigequula longispina (Valenciennes 1835), Deveximentum megalolepis (Mochizuki & Hayashi 1989), Equulites leuciscus (Günther 1860), Eubleekeria rapsoni (Munro 1964), Gazza rhombea Kimura, Yamashita & Iwatsuki 2000 and Karalla daura (Cuvier 1829), constitute the first records in Bangladesh. The present specimens of D. megalolepis represent the westernmost distribution of this species in the Indo‐Pacific region.

Predicting how climate change threatens the prey base of Arctic marine predators - Katie R. N. Florko; Travis C. Tai; William W. L. Cheung; Steven H. Ferguson; U. Rashid Sumaila; David J. Yurkowski; Marie Auger‐Méthé (Ecology Letters, 2021)
Arctic sea ice loss has direct consequences for predators. Climate‐driven distribution shifts of native and invasive prey species may exacerbate these consequences. We assessed potential changes by modelling the prey base of a widely distributed Arctic predator (ringed seal; Pusa hispida ) in a sentinel area for change (Hudson Bay) under high‐ and low‐greenhouse gas emission scenarios from 1950 to 2100. All changes were relatively negligible under the low‐emission scenario, but under the high‐emission scenario, we projected a 50% decline in the abundance of the well‐distributed, ice‐adapted and energy‐rich Arctic cod ( Boreogadus saida ) and an increase in the abundance of smaller temperate‐associated fish in southern and coastal areas. Furthermore, our model predicted that all fish species declined in mean body size, but a 29% increase in total prey biomass. Declines in energy‐rich prey and restrictions in their spatial range are likely to have cascading effects on Arctic predators.

Improving geometric construction of high resolution SAR images using Kriging-based surrogate modelling in mountainous terrain of Malaysia - Zhoobin Rahimi; Faridah Othman; Abdul Rashid Mohamed Shariff (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2021)

Landscape Transformations, Morphometry, and Trophic Status of Anchar Wetland in Kashmir Himalaya: Implications for Urban Wetland Management - Shahid Ahmad Dar; Sami Ullah Bhat; Irfan Rashid (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2021)

Detection of whole genome selection signatures of Pakistani Teddy goat - Rashid Saif; Jan Henkel; Tania Mahmood; Aniqa Ejaz; Fraz Ahmad; Saeeda Zia (Molecular Biology Reports, 2021)

Comparative analysis of chicken cecal microbial diversity and taxonomic composition in response to dietary variation using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing - Zubia Rashid; Muhammad Zubair Yousaf; Syed Muddassar Hussain Gilani; Sitwat Zehra; Ashaq Ali; Abid Azhar; Saddia Galani (Molecular Biology Reports, 2021)

Effects of agrochemicals on the beneficial plant rhizobacteria in agricultural systems - Becky Nancy Aloo; Ernest Rashid Mbega; Billy Amendi Makumba; John Baptist Tumuhairwe (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Linking land system changes (1980–2017) with the trophic status of an urban wetland: Implications for wetland management - Shahid Ahmad Dar; Irfan Rashid; Sami Ullah Bhat (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2021)

Physiological, Biochemical and Defense System Responses of Roadside Vegetation to Auto-Exhaust Pollution - Sumreen Anjum; Mumtaz Hussain; Mansoor Hameed; Rashid Ahmad (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2021)

Studies on enhancement of production of recombinant DNA polymerase originated from Pyrobaculum calidifontis - Shazeel Ahmad; Syed F. Ali; Naseema Azim; Naeem Rashid (Biologia, 2021)

Preparation and Characterization of pH-Independent Sustained-Release Tablets Containing Hot Melt Extruded Solid Dispersions of Clarithromycin - Qazi Amir Ijaz; Sumera Latif; Qurat-ul-ain Shoaib; Memoona Rashid; Muhammad Sohail Arshad; Amjad Hussain; Nadeem Irfan Bukhari; Sohail Riaz; Nasir Abbas (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2021)

Effects of sodium bicarbonate and chromium propionate supplementation on growth performance, blood indices of Beetal bucks under heat stress - Ahsan Jamal; Muhammad Afzal Rashid; Muhammad Irfan Malik (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2021)

Carbonated ground granulated blast furnace slag stabilising brown kaolin - Ahmed Mohammed Awad Mohammed; Nor Zurairahetty Mohd Yunus; Muhammad Azril Hezmi; Ahmad Safuan A. Rashid; Suksun Horpibulsuk (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Antifouling paint biocides (Irgarol 1051 and diuron) in the selected ports of Peninsular Malaysia: occurrence, seasonal variation, and ecological risk assessment - Hassan Rashid Ali; Marinah Mohd Ariffin; Tuan Fauzan Tuan Omar; Adiana Ghazali; Mohammed Ali Sheikh; Noor Azhar Mohamed Shazili; Zainudin Bachok (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Geochemical fractionation and spectroscopic fingerprinting for evaluation of the environmental transformation of potentially toxic metal(oid)s in surface–subsurface soils - Samina Irshad; Guijian Liu; Balal Yousaf; Muhammad Ubaid Ali; Rafay Ahmed; Abdul Rehman; Muhammad Saqib Rashid; Yusra Mahfooz (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2021)

Effects of different water percentages in non-surfactant water-in-diesel emulsion fuel on the performance and exhaust emissions of a small-scale industrial burner - Ili Fatimah Abd Razak; Wira Jazair Yahya; Ahmad Muhsin Ithnin; Mohd Rashid; Muhammad Ahmar Zuber; Hasannuddin Abd Kadir; Syahrullail Samion; Hirofumi Noge (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2021)

Spatial pattern of foliar hydrogen peroxide concentration and its implication in riparian vegetation management - Lekkala Vamsi Krishna; Md Harun Rashid; Takashi Asaeda (Landscape and Ecological Engineering, 2021)

Removal of pathogenic bacteria from synthetic contaminated water using packed bed silver nanoparticle-coated substrates - Israa M. Rashid; Sami D. Salman; Alaa Kareem Mohammed (Energy, Ecology and Environment, 2021)

Assessment of plastic waste generation and its feasibility for establishment of plastic waste refinery - Muhammad Ziad; Sardar Khan; Rashid Miandad; Gohar Ali; Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi; Zulkifl Ahmed (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

Digital Image Disintegration Analysis: a Novel Quality Control Method for Fast Disintegrating Tablets - Osamah Malallah; Zara Rashid; Chee Lok Li; Abdulmalik Alqurshi; Mohamed A. Alhanan; Ben Forbes; Paul G. Royall (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2021)
Measuring tablet disintegration is essential for quality control purposes; however, no established method adequately accounts for the timeframe or small volumes of the medium associated with the dissipation process for fast disintegrating tablets (FDTs) in the mouth. We hypothesised that digital imaging to measure disintegration in a low volume of the medium might discriminate between different types of FTD formulation. A digital image disintegration analysis (DIDA) was designed to measure tablet disintegration in 0.05–0.7 mL of medium. A temperature-controlled black vessel was 3D-printed to match the dimensions of each tablet under investigation. An overhead camera recorded the mean grey value of the tablet as a measure of the percentage of the formulation which remained intact as a function of time. Imodium Instants, Nurofen Meltlets and a developmental freeze-dried pilocarpine formulation were investigated. The imaging approach proved effective in discriminating the disintegration of different tablets (p

Cholic acid: a novel steroidal uncompetitive inhibitor against β-lactamase produced by multidrug-resistant isolates - Syarifah Ab Rashid; Norhaswanie Norman; Siew Hway Teo; Woei Yenn Tong; Chean Ring Leong; Wen-Nee Tan; Mohd Azizan Mohd Noor (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2021)

Overexpression of nicotinamidase 3 (NIC3) gene and the exogenous application of nicotinic acid (NA) enhance drought tolerance and increase biomass in Arabidopsis - Zarnab Ahmad; Khurram Bashir; Akihiro Matsui; Maho Tanaka; Ryosuke Sasaki; Akira Oikawa; Masami Yokota Hirai; Chaomurilege; Yanhui Zu; Maki Kawai-Yamada; Bushra Rashid; Tayyab Husnain; et al. (Plant Molecular Biology, 2021)

Wheat Genotypes with Higher Intercellular CO2 Concentration, Rate of Photosynthesis, and Antioxidant Potential Can Better Tolerate Drought Stress - Aman Ullah; Rashid Said Al-Rajhi; Abdullah M. Al-Sadi; Muhammad Farooq (Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2021)

Biological processes in the stabilization of weak river sediments: an innovative approach - K. M. N. Saquib Wani; B. A. Mir; Ishfaq Rashid Sheikh (Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, 2021)

Climatological and social fallacies about COVID-19 pandemic - Ambar Farooq; Uttam Kumar; Junaite Bin Gais Uddin; Muhammad Haroon U. Rashid; Matoor Mohsin Gilani; Taimoor Hassan Farooq; Awais Shakoor; Matloob Ahmad (Environmental Sustainability, 2021)

Identification of the processes controlling groundwater quality in shallow aquifers of Moradabad city, west Uttar Pradesh, India - Naseem us Saba; Rashid Umar (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2021)

DNA barcoding confirms a new record of flyingfish Cheilopogon spilonotopterus (Beloniformes: Exocoetidae) from the northern Bay of Bengal - S. M. Sharifuzzaman; Md. Harun Rasid; Istiuk Ahammed Rubby; Sanjit Chandra Debnath; Bingpeng Xing; Guangcheng Chen; M. Shah Nawaz Chowdhury; M. Shahadat Hossain (Conservation Genetics Resources, 2021)

Molecular detection of Cryptosporidium: an emerging parasite in different water sources of 2010 flood-affected district Nowshera, Pakistan - Shaukat Ali Khan; Imran Khan; Izaz Ali; Amir Muhammad Khan; Muhammad Anees; Khurshaid Ali Khan; Wajid Rashid; Noorul Akbar (Archives of Microbiology, 2021)

The effect of deforestation on soil quality in Lesser-Himalayan community forests of Abbottabad, Pakistan - Waseem Hayat; Salman Khan; Malik Tahir Hayat; Rashid Pervez; Shakeel Ahmad; Amir Iqbal (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

An Economic Perspective on Policies to Save the Vaquita: Conservation Actions, Wildlife Trafficking, and the Structure of Incentives - Enrique Sanjurjo-Rivera; Sarah L. Mesnick; Sara Ávila-Forcada; Oriana Poindexter; Rebecca Lent; Vanda Felbab-Brown; Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor; Dale Squires; U. Rashid Sumaila; Gordon Munro; Rafael Ortiz-Rodriguez; Ramses Rodriguez; et al. (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
The Upper Gulf of California is a diverse and highly productive ecosystem supporting some of the most important fisheries in Mexico, yet a history of weak fisheries management and illegal fishing threaten the area’s biodiversity and undermine human well-being in the communities along its shores. The vaquita ( Phocoena sinus) is endemic to these waters and is on the brink of extinction due to incidental entanglement in gillnets used by small-scale fishers. The resurgence of an illegal gillnet fishery for totoaba ( Totoaba macdonaldi ), whose swim bladders are highly prized in Hong Kong and continental China, has accelerated the steep decline of the vaquita population. Vaquita is one of a growing number of cases linking illegal wildlife trade, organized crime, and biodiversity decline. This paper provides a summary of key reflections of a panel of fisheries economists gathered at the ninth forum of the North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE) to evaluate the policies implemented in the Upper Gulf through an economic lens and updated to reflect more recent developments. The panel recognized that poor fisheries management, lack of effective enforcement, distant demand for an illegal product, corruption, and few viable economic alternatives confound efforts to address vaquita bycatch. The complexity of these problems requires a holistic, multidisciplinary approach, combining top-down, direct regulation and bottom-up, participatory and incentive-based instruments. Addressing chronic deficiencies in enforcement, particularly in the very small area where the remaining vaquitas are found, is crucial to prevent imminent extinction. Equally crucial are sustained actions to support legal fishers able to make a good living – with a direct stake in healthy marine ecosystems – as key components of policies to address bycatch and reduce wildlife trafficking. The situation in the Upper Gulf of California is dire, yet similar threats to other marine mammals and wildlife trafficked species may benefit from the experience of the vaquita.

DNA barcoding: a way forward to obtain deep insights about the realistic diversity of living organisms - Rakeeb Ahmad Mir; Kaisar Ahmad Bhat; Gazanfer Rashid; Leonard Barnabas Ebinezer; Antonio Masi; Randeep Rakwal; A. A. Shah; Sajad Majeed Zargar (The Nucleus, 2021)

Gender dimorphic effect of dopamine D2 and muscarinic cholinergic receptors on memory retrieval - Habiba Rashid; Touqeer Ahmed (Psychopharmacology, 2021)

Genetic modification of Gossypium arboreum universal stress protein (GUSP1) improves drought tolerance in transgenic cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) - Sameera Hassan; Aftab Ahmad; Fatima Batool; Bushra Rashid; Tayyab Husnain (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2021)

The distribution and composition of litter on the Aoshan Beach Qingdao, China - Rashid Pervez; Yonghong Wang; Zafarullah Jattak; Muhammad Zahir; Qaisar Mahmood (Journal of Coastal Conservation, 2021)

Achieving pro-poor growth and environmental sustainability agenda through information technologies: as right as rain - Muhammad Imran; Khan Burhan Khan; Khalid Zaman; Mohammed Borhandden Musah; Elih Sudiapermana; Abdul Rashid Abdul Aziz; Rahimah Embong; Zainudin Bin Hassan; Mohd Khata Jabor; Siti Nisrin Mohd Anis (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Consumption of liquefied petroleum gas and the EKC hypothesis in South Asia: evidence from cross-sectionally dependent heterogeneous panel data with structural breaks - Muntasir Murshed; Syed Rashid Ali; Suvajit Banerjee (Energy, Ecology and Environment, 2021)

Ocean Acidification Amplifies Multi-Stressor Impacts on Global Marine Invertebrate Fisheries - Travis C. Tai; U. Rashid Sumaila; William W. L. Cheung (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
Elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is causing global ocean changes and drives changes in organism physiology, life-history traits, and population dynamics of natural marine resources. However, our knowledge of the mechanisms and consequences of ocean acidification (OA) – in combination with other climatic drivers (i.e., warming, deoxygenation) – on organisms and downstream effects on marine fisheries is limited. Here, we explored how the direct effects of multiple changes in ocean conditions on organism aerobic performance scales up to spatial impacts on fisheries catch of 210 commercially exploited marine invertebrates, known to be susceptible to OA. Under the highest CO 2 trajectory, we show that global fisheries catch potential declines by as much as 12% by the year 2100 relative to present, of which 3.4% was attributed to OA. Moreover, OA effects are exacerbated in regions with greater changes in pH (e.g., West Arctic basin), but are reduced in tropical areas where the effects of ocean warming and deoxygenation are more pronounced (e.g., Indo-Pacific). Our results enhance our knowledge on multi-stressor effects on marine resources and how they can be scaled from physiology to population dynamics. Furthermore, it underscores variability of responses to OA and identifies vulnerable regions and species.

Application of Geomorphometric Approach for the Estimation of Hydro-sedimentological Flows and Cation Weathering Rate: Towards Understanding the Sustainable Land Use Policy for the Sindh Basin, Kashmir Himalaya - Mohd Sharjeel Sofi; Kuldeep Singh Rautela; Sami Ullah Bhat; Irfan Rashid; Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2021)

Predicting shifts in distribution range and niche breadth of plant species in contrasting arid environments under climate change - Zubair Ahmad Rather; Rameez Ahmad; Abdul Rashid Dar; Tanvir Ul Hassan Dar; Anzar Ahmad Khuroo (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2021)

Monitoring of field-evolved resistance to flonicamid, neonicotinoid, and conventional insecticides in the Oxycarenus hyalinipennis costa - Inam Ullah; Shabana Wazir; Naeem Abbas; Muhammad Naeem; Khalid Abdullah; Zahid Mahmood; Mamoon-ur Rashid; Abdulwahab M. Hafez (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2021)

Ambitious subsidy reform by the WTO presents opportunities for ocean health restoration - Christopher Costello; Katherine Millage; Sabrina Eisenbarth; Elsa Galarza; Gakushi Ishimura; Laura Lea Rubino; Vienna Saccomanno; U. Rashid Sumaila; Kent Strauss (Sustainability Science, 2021)
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is in a unique position to deliver on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14.6 by reforming global fisheries subsidies in 2020. Yet, a number of unanswered questions threaten to inhibit WTO delegates from crafting a smart agreement that improves global fisheries health. We combine global data on industrial fishing activity, subsidies, and stock assessments to show that: (1) subsidies prop up fishing effort all across the world’s ocean and (2) larger subsidies tend to occur in fisheries that are poorly managed. When combined, this evidence suggests that subsidy reform could have geographically-extensive consequences for many of the world’s largest fisheries. While much work remains to establish causality and make quantitative predictions, this evidence informs the rapidly-evolving policy debate and we conclude with actionable policy suggestions.

Analysis of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Coagulation Pathway Factors in OCP Treated PCOS Women - Saika Manzoor; Mohd A. Ganie; Sabhiya Majid; Iram Shabir; Iram A. Kawa; Qudsia Fatima; Humira Jeelani; Syed Douhath Yousuf; Fouzia Rashid (Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry, 2021)

Geotechnical characterization of bentonite-fly ash mixtures for their application as landfill liner in Pakistan - Hafiz Muhammad Awais Rashid; Arsalan Sardar; Atif Ismail (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

Sustainable fisheries are essential but not enough to ensure well‐being for the world’s fishers - Alfredo Giron‐Nava; Vicky W. Y. Lam; Octavio Aburto‐Oropeza; William W. L. Cheung; Benjamin S. Halpern; U. Rashid Sumaila; Andrés M. Cisneros‐Montemayor (Fish and Fisheries, 2021)
Effective fisheries management is necessary for the long‐term sustainability of fisheries and the economic benefits that they provide, but focusing only on ecological sustainability risks disregarding ultimate goals related to well‐being that must be achieved through broader social policy. An analysis of global landings data shows that average fishing wages in 36%–67% of countries, home to 69%–95% of fishers worldwide, are likely below their nationally determined minimum living wage (which accounts for costs of food, shelter, clothing, health and education). Furthermore, even if all fisheries in every country were perfectly managed to achieve their Maximum Sustainable Yield, a common sustainability target, average incomes of fishers in up to 49 countries—70% of fishers worldwide—would still not meet minimum living wages. Access to decent work and livelihoods are fundamental human rights, including for all fisherfolk around the world, and strategies to support their well‐being must therefore integrate a much wider set of perspectives, disciplines and institutions. Key first steps for fisheries researchers are to more fully recognize and estimate fisheries benefits to households—including income from women and/or alternative employment, unreported landings, or shadow values of subsistence catch—and to help identify and learn from economic equity outcomes in rebuilt fisheries around the world.

Regional frequency analysis of annual daily rainfall maxima in Skåne, Sweden - Mahmood Ul Hassan; Zahra Noreen; Rashid Ahmed (International Journal of Climatology, 2021)
Extreme daily rainfall events are critical for the urban drainage system, human life, agriculture and small catchments. The information about extreme rainfall magnitudes and frequencies is immensely important for civil engineers, city planners, scientists related to water management, rescue operations and flood control works. This study illustrates the results of regional frequency analysis (RFA) of annual maximum daily rainfall (AMDR) of Skåne County, Sweden. L‐moments based heterogeneity measure (H) reveals that the Skåne County is a homogeneous region. Based on the L‐moment ratio diagram and Z Dist statistic results, the generalized normal (GNO) distribution is selected as the most suitable regional distribution. The accuracy measures used in K‐fold cross validation indicate that support vector machine (SVM) model is an appropriate model to find the index rainfall at ungauged sites in the region. The sites characteristics, elevation and latitude are identified as the most important variables to explain the variation in mean annual maximum daily rainfall (MAMDR). Finally, spatial maps of predicted MAMDR for different return periods are constructed by using index rainfall combined with regional quantiles. Spatial maps offer an overall view of the expected MAMDR in the region that is helpful for multiple decision makers including infrastructure planners, city planners, emergency managers, engineers and many others.

Invasiveness traits help Amaranths to invade Kashmir Himalaya, India - Rezwana Assad; Irfan Rashid; Zafar A Reshi; Irshad Ahmad Sofi (Tropical Ecology, 2021)

Beat the stress: breeding for climate resilience in maize for the tropical rainfed environments - Boddupalli M. Prasanna; Jill E. Cairns; P. H. Zaidi; Yoseph Beyene; Dan Makumbi; Manje Gowda; Cosmos Magorokosho; Mainassara Zaman-Allah; Mike Olsen; Aparna Das; Mosisa Worku; James Gethi; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2021)
Key message Intensive public sector breeding efforts and public-private partnerships have led to the increase in genetic gains, and deployment of elite climate-resilient maize cultivars for the stress-prone environments in the tropics. Abstract Maize ( Zea mays L.) plays a critical role in ensuring food and nutritional security, and livelihoods of millions of resource-constrained smallholders. However, maize yields in the tropical rainfed environments are now increasingly vulnerable to various climate-induced stresses, especially drought, heat, waterlogging, salinity, cold, diseases, and insect pests, which often come in combinations to severely impact maize crops. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), in partnership with several public and private sector institutions, has been intensively engaged over the last four decades in breeding elite tropical maize germplasm with tolerance to key abiotic and biotic stresses, using an extensive managed stress screening network and on-farm testing system. This has led to the successful development and deployment of an array of elite stress-tolerant maize cultivars across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Further increasing genetic gains in the tropical maize breeding programs demands judicious integration of doubled haploidy, high-throughput and precise phenotyping, genomics-assisted breeding, breeding data management, and more effective decision support tools. Multi-institutional efforts, especially public–private alliances, are key to ensure that the improved maize varieties effectively reach the climate-vulnerable farming communities in the tropics, including accelerated replacement of old/obsolete varieties.

Heat shock protein gene identified from Agave sisalana (AsHSP70) confers heat stress tolerance in transgenic cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) - Anicet Agossa Batcho; Muhammad Bilal Sarwar; Bushra Rashid; Sameera Hassan; Tayyab Husnain (Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology, 2021)

Prediction of different depth amplifications of deep soil sites for potential scenario earthquakes - P. Anbazhagan; Mohammad Rafiq Joo; Meer Mehran Rashid; Nassir S. N. Al-Arifi (Natural Hazards, 2021)

Proteasomal degradation of p130 facilitate cell cycle deregulation and impairment of cellular differentiation in high-risk Human Papillomavirus 16 and 18 E7 transfected cells - Sivasangkary Gandhi; Nurshamimi Nor Rashid; Muhammad Fazril Mohamad Razif; Shatrah Othman (Molecular Biology Reports, 2021)

Trend analysis of Global Climate Model EdGCM downscaled data for forecasting Boro rice yield in north-eastern region of Bangladesh - Md Altaf Hossain; Fahmida Ishaque; Gazi Tamiz Uddin; Md Abdur Rashid Sarker; Md Hafizur Rahman; Israt Jahan Ripa; Joyshankar Baidya (Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2021)

Carbon-Based Slow-Release Fertilizers for Efficient Nutrient Management: Synthesis, Applications, and Future Research Needs - Muhammad Rashid; Qaiser Hussain; Khalid Saifullah Khan; Mohammad I. Alwabel; Rifat Hayat; Muhammad Akmal; Shahzada Sohail Ijaz; Sarosh Alvi; Obaid-ur-Rehman (Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2021)

Immunoinformatics Driven Prediction of Multiepitopic Vaccine Against Klebsiella pneumoniae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Coinfection and Its Validation via In Silico Expression - Sidra Rahmat Ullah; Mahnoor Majid; Muhammad Ibrahim Rashid; Khalid Mehmood; Saadia Andleeb (International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 2021)

In Vitro Selective Suppression of Tumor Cells by an Oncolytic Peptide in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma - Khalid Rashid; Aqeel Ahmad (International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 2021)

Dissipation kinetics and risk assessment of iprovalicarb + propineb fungicide in tomato under different agroclimates - Vandana Tripathy; Krishan Kumar Sharma; Thomas George; Chidanand Shiveshankar Patil; Yogesh Subhash Saindane; Soudamini Mohapatra; Lekha Siddamallaiah; Abdul Rashid Khan Pathan; Amit Kumar Yadav; Khushbu Sharma; Rajbir Yadav; Ruchi Gupta; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Multivariate modeling of pan evaporation in monthly temporal resolution using a hybrid evolutionary data-driven method (case study: Urmia Lake and Gavkhouni basins) - Alireza Emadi; Sarvin Zamanzad-Ghavidel; Sina Fazeli; Soheila Zarei; Ali Rashid-Niaghi (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2021)

Breast cancer liver metastasis: current and future treatment approaches - Narmeen S. Rashid; Jacqueline M. Grible; Charles V. Clevenger; J. Chuck Harrell (Clinical & Experimental Metastasis, 2021)

Response of maize plant to sodium hydrosulfide pretreatment under lead stress conditions at early stages of growth - Roya Zanganeh; Rashid Jamei; Fatemeh Rahmani (Cereal Research Communications, 2021)

Correction to: Biomonitoring of Toxic Metals in Feathers of Birds from North-Eastern Pakistan - Bushra Rashid; Muhammad Zubair; Nausheen Irshad; Khawaja Shafique Ahmad; Majid Mahmood; Majid Mahmood Tahir; Khizar Hussain Shah; Aqeela Shaheen (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2021)

Durability of three tropical timber species growing in Bangladesh to white-rot fungi - Rabeya Sultana; Sokina Aktar; Md. Abduulah Al Mamun; Md. Ashaduzzaman; Md. Qumruzzaman Chowdhury; A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid (Journal of the Indian Academy of Wood Science, 2021)

In vitro morphophysiological screening of drought-tolerant potato genotypes - M. Harun-Or-Rashid; M.A. Bari Miah; S.M. Shahinul Islam (In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, 2021)

Removal of N-terminal methionine of human interferon α-2b by co‐producing with Pyrococcus furiosus methionine aminopeptidase in Escherichia coli - Amina Arif; Naeem Rashid; Muhammad Akhtar (Biologia, 2021)

Assessment of disturbance impact of hydraulic jacked-in pile penetration in artificial clayey soil - Nabeel Katfan Lwti; Ahmad Safuan A Rashid; Abd Rahman Tamuri; Abideen Adekunle Ganiyu; Suksun Horpibulsuk; Roohollah Kalatehjari (Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, 2021)

Assessment of the Space-Time Dynamics of Soil Salinity in Irrigated Areas Under Climate Change: a Case Study in Sirdarya Province, Uzbekistan - Rashid Kulmatov; Sayidjakhon Khasanov; Sarvar Odilov; Fadong Li (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2021)

In situ monitoring of chlorothalonil and lambda-cyhalothrin by polyethylene passive samplers under fields and greenhouse conditions - Sumia Sahar; Jiaying Xue; Audil Rashid; Quyang Mei; Rimao Hua (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

An assessment of service level of household toilet attributes based on the users’ satisfaction in rural Bihar, India - Mohammad Rashid; Debapratim Pandit (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2021)

Correction to: Ambitious subsidy reform by the WTO presents opportunities for ocean health restoration - Christopher Costello; Katherine Millage; Sabrina Eisenbarth; Elsa Galarza; Gakushi Ishimura; Laura Lea Rubino; Vienna Saccomanno; U. Rashid Sumaila; Kent Strauss (Sustainability Science, 2021)
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Identification and molecular characterization of rose leaf curl virus in ornamental pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) - Kamran Rashid; Mohsin Tariq; Rob W. Briddon; Ioly Kotta-Loizou; Khadim Hussain (Australasian Plant Pathology, 2021)

Morphological and meristic characters of six rabbitfish species (Family: Siganidae) in Kenya - Rashid O. Anam; Chrisestom M. Mwatete; Nina Wambiji (Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science, 2021)
Siganus species (rabbitfishes) are caught by artisanal fishers in Kenyan marine waters. The identification of recently captured rabbitfish species is based on colour patterns, but colours fade after death or during preservation, making species identification more difficult. Morphometric measurements and meristics are then useful in differentiating between species. Twenty-four morphological and twelve meristic characteristics of rabbitfish were obtained from samples collected at six landing sites along the Kenyan coast. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Mann-Whitney U-tests were used to evaluate variability among the species. Four of six rabbitfish species showed similar body morphometry and could not be distinguished using PCA analysis, but Siganus stellatus and S. luridus differed from the other species and each other. No clear morphological evidence of separate stocks of individual rabbitfish species was found, apart from S. rivulatus for which the sample size was small. It is recommended that existing taxonomic descriptions are updated to include additional distinctive characters documented in this study.

Documentation of Istiblennius dussumieri (Blenniiformes: Blenniidae) from the Northern Bay of Bengal, with Ecological Notes - Md. Tariful Islam Fuad; Istiuk Ahammed Rubby; Md. Harun Rasid; Mohammed Shah Nawaz Chowdhury; S.M. Sharifuzzaman (Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences, 2021)

Empirical assessment of rockfall and debris flow risk along the Karakoram Highway, Pakistan - Sajid Ali; Rashid Haider; Wahid Abbas; Muhammad Basharat; Klaus Reicherter (Natural Hazards, 2021)
The Karakoram Highway links north Pakistan with southwest China. It passes through unique geomorphological, geological and tectonic setting. This study focused 200-km-long section of the highway starting from Besham until Chilas. Landslides are frequent and are mostly triggered by torrential rain during Monsoon and Westerlies, leading to highway blockade. Rockfall and debris flow are prime mode of slope failures. Regional to site-specific approach was implemented to assess risk associated with these two modes. Remote sensing-based techniques were used to identify potential hazardous sites, which were further investigated for risk assessment. Modified Pierson’s rockfall hazard rating system (RHRS) rated potential rockfalls, whereas semi-quantitative technique was employed to assess debris flows. Normalized scores of each site shaped the final map, further classified into four zones: very high, high, intermediate and low risk.

Growth and Physiology of Maize (Zea mays L.) in a Nickel-Contaminated Soil and Phytoremediation Efficiency Using EDTA - Muhammad Imran Tipu; Muhammad Yasin Ashraf; Nadeem Sarwar; Muhammad Akhtar; Muhammad Rashid Shaheen; Sajjad Ali; Christos A. Damalas (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2021)

Population structure of two morphotypes of Sideroxylon mascatense (A.DC.) T.D.Penn. in Oman - Eric Hopkins; Rashid Al-Yahyai; Abdullah M. Al-Sadi; Ali Al-Subhi (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2021)

Carbon emissions from the peat fire problem—a review - Nor Azizah Che Azmi; Nazirah Mohd Apandi; Ahmad Safuan A. Rashid (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Epigenetic Silencing of DAPK1and p16INK4a Genes by CpG Island Hypermethylation in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Patients - Mariyam Zuberi; Sagar Dholariya; Imran Khan; Rashid Mir; Sameer Guru; Musadiq bhat; Mamta Sumi; Alpana Saxena (Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry, 2021)

The Environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for deforestation in Bangladesh: An ARDL analysis with multiple structural breaks - Muntasir Murshed; Jannatul Ferdaus; Seemran Rashid; Muntaha Masud Tanha; Md. Jahurul Islam (Energy, Ecology and Environment, 2021)

Thermococcus kodakarensis-derived L-asparaginase: a candidate for the treatment of glioblastoma - Huma Naz; Sheereen Gull; Qamar Bashir; Naeem Rashid; Naveed Shahzad (Biologia, 2021)

A case–control study of determinants for COVID-19 infection based on contact tracing in Dungun district, Terengganu state of Malaysia - Hafizuddin Awang; Effah Leiylena Yaacob; Sharifah Nadira Syed Aluawi; Muhammad Faris Mahmood; Fathul Hakim Hamzah; Azmani Wahab; Norafidah Abdul Rashid; Rosmaliza Razali; Goh Soo Ning; Kasemani Embong; Nor Azimi Yunus (Infectious Diseases, 2021)

Low rate of COVID-19 seroconversion in health-care workers at a Department of Infectious Diseases in Sweden during the later phase of the first wave; a prospective longitudinal seroepidemiological study - Mulki Rashid-Abdi; Anders Krifors; Andreas Sälléber; Jenny Eriksson; Emeli Månsson (Infectious Diseases, 2021)

Integrating the biological invasion paradigm in the policy framework in India - Neha Goyal; Shambhavi Krishna; Kanhaiya Shah; Irfan Rashid; Gyan Prakash Sharma (Tropical Ecology, 2021)

Impact of a Nature-Inspired Engineered Soil Structure on Microbial Diversity and Community Composition in the Bulk Soil and Rhizosphere of Tomato Grown Under Saline Irrigation Water - Daniel Menezes-Blackburn; Said Al-Ismaily; Ahmed Al-Mayahi; Buthaina Al-Siyabi; Adhari Al-Kalbani; Hamed Al-Busaid; Ishaq Al-Naabi; Mohammed Al-Mazroui; Rashid Al-Yahyai (Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2021)

Searching for Predictors of Migraine Chronification: a Pilot Study of 1911A>G Polymorphism of TRPV1 Gene in Episodic Versus Chronic Migraine - Aliya Yakubova; Yuriy Davidyuk; Jussi Tohka; Olga Khayrutdinova; Igor Kudryavtsev; Dilyara Nurkhametova; Alexei Kamshilin; Rashid Giniatullin; Albert Rizvanov (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2021)

State-of-the-Art Review on the Role of Geocells in Soil Reinforcement - Ishfaq Rashid Sheikh; M. Y. Shah (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2021)

Occurrence, Human Health Risks, and Public Awareness Level of Pharmaceuticals in Tap Water from Putrajaya (Malaysia) - Sarva Mangala Praveena; Maizatul Zahirah Mohd Rashid; Fauzan Adzima Mohd Nasir; Sze Yee Wee; Ahmad Zaharin Aris (Exposure and Health, 2021)

Correction to: Ground improvement and its role in carbon dioxide reduction: a review - Ahmed Mohammed Awad Mohammed; Nor Zurairahetty Mohd Yunus; Muhammad Azril Hezmi; Dayang Zulaika Abang Hasbollah; Ahmad Safuan A Rashid (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Investigating and evaluating the dynamics of change in water resources of the Aydar-Arnasay Lake system in Uzbekistan - Rashid Kulmatov; Abdurazok Taylakov; Sayidjakhon Khasanov (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Arsenic and lead in the indoor residential settings of different socio-economic status; assessment of human health risk via dust exposure - Nadeem Ali; Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah Eqani; Ehtisham Nazar; Nabil A. Alhakamy; Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid; Khurram Shahzad; Jahan Zeb; Heqing Shen; Iqbal Mohammad Ibrahim Ismail; Hussain Mohammed Salem Ali Albar (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Coccolithophores: an environmentally significant and understudied phytoplankton group in the Indian Ocean - M. Arundhathy; R. Jyothibabu; S. Santhikrishnan; K. J. Albin; S. Parthasarathi; C. P. Rashid (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2021)

Spatiotemporal changes of vegetation and land surface temperature in the refugee camps and its surrounding areas of Bangladesh after the Rohingya influx from Myanmar - Kazi Jihadur Rashid; Md. Atikul Hoque; Tasnia Aysha Esha; Md. Atiqur Rahman; Alak Paul (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2021)

Detection of Human Adenovirus, Rotavirus, and Enterovirus in Tap Water and Their Association with the Overall Quality of Water in Karachi, Pakistan - Muhammad Rashid; Muhammad Naseem Khan; Nusrat Jalbani (Food and Environmental Virology, 2021)

COVID-19: Diagnostics, Therapeutic Advances, and Vaccine Development - Sabhiya Majid; Mosin S. Khan; Samia Rashid; Ayesha Niyaz; Rabia Farooq; Showkat A. Bhat; Hilal A. Wani; Waseem Qureshi (Current Clinical Microbiology Reports, 2021)

SARS-COV-2 infection and lung tumor microenvironment - Naila Malkani; Muhammad Usman Rashid (Molecular Biology Reports, 2021)

Effect of valproic acid on the hepatic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells in 2D and 3D microenvironments - Saman Rashid; Rida-e-Maria Qazi; Tuba Shakil Malick; Asmat Salim; Irfan Khan; Amber Ilyas; Kanwal Haneef (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2021)

A state-of-the-art review on wastewater treatment techniques: the effectiveness of adsorption method - Ruhma Rashid; Iqrash Shafiq; Parveen Akhter; Muhammad Javid Iqbal; Murid Hussain (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Ground improvement and its role in carbon dioxide reduction: a review - Mohammed Awad Mohammed; Nor Zurairahetty Mohd Yunus; Muhammad Azril Hezmi; Dayang Zulaika Abang Hasbollah; Ahmad Safuan A Rashid (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Removal of azo dye from aqueous solution by a low-cost activated carbon prepared from coal: adsorption kinetics, isotherms study, and DFT simulation - Saeed Ullah Jan; Aziz Ahmad; Adnan Ali Khan; Saad Melhi; Iftikhar Ahmad; Guohua Sun; Cheng-Meng Chen; Rashid Ahmad (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Dose estimation of radioactivity in groundwater of Srinagar City, Northwest Himalaya, employing fluorimetric and scintillation techniques - Salik Nazir; Shakeel Simnani; B. K. Sahoo; Irfan Rashid; Sajad Masood (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2021)

Potential risk and source distribution of groundwater contamination by mercury in district Swabi, Pakistan: Application of multivariate study - Seema Anjum Khattak; Abdur Rashid; Muhammad Tariq; Liaqat Ali; Xubo Gao; Muhammad Ayub; Asif Javed (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2021)

Influence of propeller material hardness, testing time, rock properties, and conditioning on LCPC rock abrasiveness test - M. Z. Abu Bakar; Y. Majeed; M. A. Rashid (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2021)

Newly discovered cichlid fish biodiversity threatened by hybridization with non‐native species - Tabitha Blackwell; Antonia G. P. Ford; Adam G. Ciezarek; Stephanie J. Bradbeer; Carlos A. Gracida Juarez; Alan M. Smith; Benjamin P. Ngatunga; Asilatu Shechonge; Rashid Tamatamah; Graham Etherington; Wilfried Haerty; Federica Di Palma; et al. (Molecular Ecology, 2021)
Invasive freshwater fishes are known to readily hybridize with indigenous congeneric species, driving loss of unique and irreplaceable genetic resources. Here we reveal that newly discovered (2013–2016) evolutionarily significant populations of Korogwe tilapia ( Oreochromis korogwe ) from southern Tanzania are threatened by hybridization with the larger invasive Nile tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus ). We use a combination of morphology, microsatellite allele frequencies and whole genome sequences to show that O. korogwe from southern lakes (Nambawala, Rutamba and Mitupa) are distinct from geographically disjunct populations in northern Tanzania (Zigi River and Mlingano Dam). We also provide genetic evidence of O. korogwe × niloticus hybrids in three southern lakes and demonstrate heterogeneity in the extent of admixture across the genome. Finally, using the least admixed genomic regions we estimate that the northern and southern O. korogwe populations most plausibly diverged ~140,000 years ago, suggesting that the geographical separation of the northern and southern groups is not a result of a recent translocation, and instead these populations represent independent evolutionarily significant units. We conclude that these newly discovered and phenotypically unique cichlid populations are already threatened by hybridization with an invasive species, and propose that these irreplaceable genetic resources would benefit from conservation interventions.

Methane emissions respond to soil temperature in convergent patterns but divergent sensitivities across wetlands along altitude - Dan Zhu; Ning Wu; Nabin Bhattarai; Krishna Prasad Oli; Huai Chen; Gopal Singh Rawat; Irfan Rashid; Maheshwar Dhakal; Srijana Joshi; Jianqing Tian; Qiu’an Zhu; Sunita Chaudhary; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2021)
Among the global coordinated patterns in soil temperature and methane emission from wetlands, a declining trend of optimal soil temperature for methane emissions from low to high latitudes has been witnessed, while the corresponding trend along the altitudinal gradient has not yet been investigated. We therefore selected two natural wetlands located at contrasting climatic zones from foothill and mountainside of Nepal Himalayas, to test: (1) whether the optimal temperature for methane emissions decreases from low to high altitude, and (2) whether there is a difference in temperature sensitivity of methane emissions from those wetlands. We found significant spatial and temporal variation of methane emissions between the two wetlands and seasons. Soil temperature was the dominant driver for seasonal variation in methane emissions from both wetlands, though its effect was perplexed by the level of standing water, aquatic plants, and dissolved organic carbon, particularly in the deep water area. When integrative comparison was conducted by adding the existing data from wetlands of diverse altitudes, and the latitude‐for‐altitude effect was taken into account, we found the baseline soil temperatures decrease whilst the altitude rises with respect to a rapid increase in methane emission from all wetlands, however, remarkably higher sensitivity of methane emissions to soil temperature (apparent Q 10 ) was found in mid‐altitude wetland. We provide the first evidence of an apparent decline in optimal temperature for methane emissions with increasing elevation. These findings suggest a convergent pattern of methane emissions with respect to seasonal temperature shifts from wetlands along altitudinal gradient, while a divergent pattern in temperature sensitivities exhibits a single peak in mid‐altitude.

Monitoring responses of vegetation phenology and productivity to extreme climatic conditions using remote sensing across different sub-regions of China - Tehseen Javed; Yi Li; Kai Feng; Olusola O. Ayantobo; Shakeel Ahmad; Xinguo Chen; Sadaf Rashid; Sovannaka Suon (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Describing the current status of Plasmodium falciparum population structure and drug resistance within mainland Tanzania using molecular inversion probes - Kara A. Moser; Rashid A. Madebe; Ozkan Aydemir; Mercy G. Chiduo; Celine I. Mandara; Susan F. Rumisha; Frank Chaky; Madeline Denton; Patrick W. Marsh; Robert Verity; Oliver J. Watson; Billy Ngasala; et al. (Molecular Ecology, 2021)
High‐throughput Plasmodium genomic data is increasingly useful in assessing prevalence of clinically important mutations and malaria transmission patterns. Understanding parasite diversity is important for identification of specific human or parasite populations that can be targeted by control programmes, and to monitor the spread of mutations associated with drug resistance. An up‐to‐date understanding of regional parasite population dynamics is also critical to monitor the impact of control efforts. However, this data is largely absent from high‐burden nations in Africa, and to date, no such analysis has been conducted for malaria parasites in Tanzania countrywide. To this end, over 1,000 P. falciparum clinical isolates were collected in 2017 from 13 sites in seven administrative regions across Tanzania, and parasites were genotyped at 1,800 variable positions genome‐wide using molecular inversion probes. Population structure was detectable among Tanzanian P. falciparum parasites, approximately separating parasites from the northern and southern districts and identifying genetically admixed populations in the north. Isolates from nearby districts were more likely to be genetically related compared to parasites sampled from more distant districts. Known drug resistance mutations were seen at increased frequency in northern districts (including two infections carrying pfk13 ‐R561H), and additional variants with undetermined significance for antimalarial resistance also varied by geography. Malaria Indicator Survey (2017) data corresponded with genetic findings, including average region‐level complexity‐of‐infection and malaria prevalence estimates. The parasite populations identified here provide important information on extant spatial patterns of genetic diversity of Tanzanian parasites, to which future surveys of genetic relatedness can be compared.

Techno-economic assessment of energy generation through municipal solid waste: a case study for small/medium size districts in Pakistan - Ubaid Ur Rehman Zia; Tanzeel ur Rashid; Muzaffar Ali; Waqas Nazir Awan (Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy, 2020)

Retreat and geodetic mass changes of Zemu Glacier, Sikkim Himalaya, India, between 1931 and 2018 - Irfan Rashid; Ulfat Majeed (Regional Environmental Change, 2020)

Issues associated with deploying CNN transfer learning to detect COVID-19 from chest X-rays - Taban Majeed; Rasber Rashid; Dashti Ali; Aras Asaad (Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 2020)

Rare Earth Elements Around the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, UAE - Mouza Rashid Al Rashdi; Mohamed El Tokhi; Sulaiman Alaabed; Walid El Mowafi; Alya A. Arabi (Natural Resources Research, 2020)

Curcumin inhibits lipopolysaccharide and lipoteichoic acid-induced expression of proinflammatory cytokines and production of PGE2 in the primary bubaline endometrial stromal cells - Ajaz Ali; Rouf Rashid Dar; Sheikh Firdous Ahmad; Sanjay Kumar Singh; Manas Kumar Patra; Manjit Panigrahi; Harendra Kumar; Narayanan Krishnaswamy (Molecular Biology Reports, 2020)

Histone H2A isoforms: Potential implications in epigenome plasticity and diseases in eukaryotes - Sanket Shah; Tripti Verma; Mudasir Rashid; Nikhil Gadewal; Sanjay Gupta (Journal of Biosciences, 2020)

Molecular identification of sugarcane black bug (Cavelarius excavates) from Pakistan using cytochrome C oxidase I (COI) gene as DNA barcode - Khadim Hussain; Kamran Rashid; Faisal Hafeez; Ikrma Amad; Muhammad Ashraf (International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 2020)

Methanolic extract of Ephedra ciliata promotes wound healing and arrests inflammatory cascade in vivo through downregulation of TNF-α - Hafiza Sidra Yaseen; Muhammad Asif; Malik Saadullah; Mahrukh; Sajid Asghar; Muhammad Usman Shams; Rizwan Rashid Bazmi; Mohammad Saleem; Hafiz Muhammad Yousaf; Maria Yaseen (Inflammopharmacology, 2020)

Novel loss-of-function mutations in COCH cause autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss - Kevin T. Booth; Amama Ghaffar; Muhammad Rashid; Luke T. Hovey; Mureed Hussain; Kathy Frees; Erika M. Renkes; Carla J. Nishimura; Mohsin Shahzad; Richard J. Smith; Zubair Ahmed; Hela Azaiez; et al. (Human Genetics, 2020)

Spatially analyzing food consumption inequalities using GIS with disaggregated data from Punjab, Pakistan. - Sana Khushi; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Ather Ashraf; Muhammad Imran (Food Security, 2020)

Waste valorization and resource conservation in rice processing industries—an analytical study from Pakistan - Rizwan Rasheed; Roshna Umer; Almas Hamid; Asfra Rizwan; Hajra Javed; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Yuehong Su (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Emerging risk of environmental factors: insight mechanisms of Alzheimer’s diseases - Md Ataur Rahman; Md Saidur Rahman; Md Jamal Uddin; A. N. M. Mamum-Or-Rashid; Myung-Geol Pang; Hyewhon Rhim (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Managing geological uncertainty in expensive reservoir simulation optimization - Kashif Rashid (Computational Geosciences, 2020)

Analysis of host protein interactions in plant viruses: an in silico study using Sesbania mosaic virus - Mariya Rashid; Shubham Mittal; Sangita Venkataraman (Virus Genes, 2020)

A Review of the Production, Recycling and Management of Marine Plastic Pollution - Ibrahim Issifu; U. Rashid Sumaila (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020)
The human attachment to plastic has intensified recently due to its lightweight, versatility, low-cost and durability and so has the damage to the marine environment as marine plastic pollution has correspondingly increased. As a result, there has been increasing concern on the issue of marine plastic pollution. Policy-based organizations such as the United Nations Environment Programme have drawn public attention to the scope, magnitude and impacts of marine pollution in recent decades. Research on marine pollution can play a significant role in contributing to policy-making processes in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on Life Below Water (SDG 14), by providing scientific analysis on the effects and sources of marine plastic pollution. This paper provides a theoretical and empirical overview of marine plastic pollution and its potential effects on marine ecosystems. It also discusses SDGs that are relevant to marine plastic pollution and suggest priorities for further research.

Conformational dynamics of $$α $$-conotoxin PnIB in complex solvent systems - Jokent T. Gaza; Abdul-Rashid B. Sampaco; Kenee Kaiser S. Custodio; Ricky B. Nellas (Molecular Diversity, 2020)

Impact assessment of urban development patterns on land surface temperature by using remote sensing techniques: a case study of Lahore, Faisalabad and Multan district - Muhammad Sajid Saleem; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Shafiq-Ur-Rehman; Muhammad Asif Javed (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Identification of irrigation potential areas, using multi-criteria analysis in Khyber District, Pakistan - Muhammad Waleed; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Muhammad Asif Javed; Saifullah Samiullah (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Influence of metallic species for efficient photocatalytic water disinfection: bactericidal mechanism of in vitro results using docking simulation - Aaima Iftikhar; Muhammad Saqib Khan; Umer Rashid; Qaisar Mahmood; Habiba Zafar; Muhammad Bilal; Nadia Riaz (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Application of pollution indices for the assessment of heavy metal hazards in soil using GIS approach - Ambreena Javaid; Wasif Yousaf; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Abdul Qadir (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Risk assessment of hazardous elements in wastewater irrigated soil and cultivated vegetables in Pakistan - Alia Naz; Sardar Khan; Said Muhammad; Rafiq Ahmad; Salma Khalid; Abdullah Khan; Rashid Nazir; Sadia Alam; Zia ur Rahman (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Single tube multiplex PCR assay for the identification of banned meat species - Memoona Iqbal; Muhammad Sulyman Saleem; Muhammad Imran; Waseem Ahmad Khan; Kamran Ashraf; M. Yasir Zahoor; Imran Rashid; Habib-Ur Rehman; Asif Nadeem; Saadat Ali; Sarwat Naz; Wasim Shehzad (Food Additives & Contaminants Part B-Surveillance, 2020)

Adsorption Kinetics, Isotherms, and Thermodynamics of Removal of Anionic Surfactant from Aqueous Solution Using Fly Ash - Ahmer Ali Siyal; Rashid Shamsuddin; Aaron Low; Arif Hidayat (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2020)

A Review of the Flora and Fauna in the Al Wathba Wetland Reserve in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Pritpal Soorae; Sabitha Sakkir; Anitha Saji; Shahid B. Khan; Rashid Al Zaabi; Junid N. Shah; Ahmed Ali; Khaldoun Al Omari; Ahmed Al Dhaheri; Salim Javed; Sai Ravi Tubati; Shakeel Ahmed; et al. (Wetlands, 2020)

Field Survey of Tsunami Heights and Runups Following the 22 December 2018 Anak Krakatau Volcano Tsunami, Indonesia - Mohammad Heidarzadeh; Purna Sulastya Putra; Septriono Hari Nugroho; Doud Ben Zubair Rashid (Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2020)
The 22 December 2018 Anak Karakatau tsunami in Indonesia was a rare event in that few instrumental records existed of tsunamis generated by volcanic sources before this event. The tsunami, which left a death toll of 437, is of global importance as it provides opportunities to develop knowledge on generation, propagation and coastal effects of volcanic tsunamis. Here, we report results of field surveys along the coast of the Sunda Strait, Indonesia to study tsunami wave heights and coastal damage. We surveyed 29 locations and measured ranges of tsunami runup from 0.9 to 5.2 m, tsunami heights from 1.4 to 6.3 m, flow depths from 0.2 m to 3.0 m and inundation distances from 18 to 212 m. The largest tsunami heights and concentration of damage and fatalities occurred on the western shore of Java from Tanjung Lesung to Sumur. The largest cluster of fatalities occurred at Tanjung Lesung, where more than 50 people died while attending an outdoor music being held at the shoreline. The tsunami runup and tsunami height in Tanjung Lesung were 4.0 and 2.9–3.8 m, respectively. We believe this tragedy could have been avoided if the event organizers were more aware of the hazard posed by the Anak Krakatau volcano, as it had been actively erupting for several months prior to the tsunami, and simply moved the concert stage 100 m inland. Many of the locations surveyed demonstrated a similar pattern where the majority of casualties and destruction occurred within 100 m of the coast; in several locations, lives were saved where buildings were located at least this distance inland. The significant damage and numerous deaths which occurred in Sumur, despite the moderate tsunami height of 2.3–2.5 m, can be attributed to the extremely low-lying coastal land there. Flow depth in Sumur was 0.9–2.0 m. During our field surveys, nearly one year after the event, we noted that some of the damaged buildings were being rebuilt in the same locations just 10–30 m from the shoreline. We question this practice since the new buildings could be at the same tsunami risk as those damaged in the 2018 event.

Correction to: Ectopic PD-L1 expression in JAK2 (V617F) myeloproliferative neoplasm patients is mediated via increased activation of STAT3 and STAT5 - Sameer Ahamd Guru; Mamta P. Sumi; Rashid Mir; Ajaz Ahmad Waza; Musadiq Ahmad Bhat; Mariyam Zuberi; Promod Lali; Alpana Saxena (Human Cell, 2020)

Clinical relevance of tumor microenvironment: immune cells, vessels, and mouse models - Eriko Katsuta; Omar M. Rashid; Kazuaki Takabe (Human Cell, 2020)

Ectopic PD-L1 expression in JAK2 (V617F) myeloproliferative neoplasm patients is mediated via increased activation of STAT3 and STAT5 - Sameer Ahamd Guru; Mamta P. Sumi; Rashid Mir; Ajaz Ahmad Waza; Musadiq Ahmad Bhat; Mariyam Zuberi; Promod Lali; Alpana Saxena (Human Cell, 2020)

Landscape transformation of an urban wetland in Kashmir Himalaya, India using high-resolution remote sensing data, geospatial modeling, and ground observations over the last 5 decades (1965–2018) - Irfan Rashid; Sheikh Aneaus (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2020)

Formulation and evaluation of cubosomes containing colchicine for transdermal delivery - Mohamed Nasr; Hassan Younes; Rania S. Abdel-Rashid (Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2020)

Twenty-first century-end climate scenario of Jammu and Kashmir Himalaya, India, using ensemble climate models - Shakil Ahmad Romshoo; Jasia Bashir; Irfan Rashid (Climatic Change, 2020)

Embryo rescue response and genetic analyses in interspecific crosses of oilseed Brassica species - Romana Sharmin Ripa; Mohammad Rashid Arif; M. Thoihidul Islam; Arif Hasan Khan Robin (In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, 2020)

Monitoring and analysis of the effects of atmospheric temperature and heat extreme of the environment on human health in Central Iran, located in southwest Asia - Hojjatollah Rashid Kolvir; Aghil Madadi; Vahid Safarianzengir; Behrouz Sobhani (Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 2020)

The Global Fisheries Subsidies Divide Between Small- and Large-Scale Fisheries - Anna Schuhbauer; Daniel J. Skerritt; Naazia Ebrahim; Frédéric Le Manach; U. Rashid Sumaila (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020)

Smartphone-integrated field microscopy (SPFM): a low-cost and portable tool to study live biological specimens in the wild - Zubair Ahmad Rather; Anzar Ahmad Khuroo; Abdul Rashid Dar; Tanvir Ul Hassan Dar (Plant Biosystems, 2020)

Poly(amidoxime) ligand derived from waste palm fiber for the removal of heavy metals from electroplating wastewater - Md Lutfor Rahman; Choong Jian Fui; Mohd Sani Sarjadi; Sazmal E. Arshad; Baba Musta; Mohd Harun Abdullah; Shaheen M. Sarkar; Emmet J. O’Reilly (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Evaluation of the corrosion inhibition efficacy of Cola acuminata extract for low carbon steel in simulated acid pickling environment - Abdul-Rashid I. Mohammed; Moses M. Solomon; Kabiru Haruna; Saviour A. Umoren; Tawfik A. Saleh (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Integration of high-resolution optical and SAR satellite remote sensing datasets for aboveground biomass estimation in subtropical pine forest, Pakistan - Aqeela M. Akhtar; Waqas A. Qazi; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Hammad Gilani; Syed Amer Mahmood; Ansir Rasool (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2020)

‘Polymorphism-aided’ Selective Targeting and Inhibition of Caspase-6 by a Novel Allosteric Inhibitor Towards Efficient Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment - Ransford Oduro Kumi; Clement Agoni; Abdul Rashid Issahaku; Fisayo A. Olotu; Mahmoud E. S. Soliman (Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2020)

Enhancement of salt tolerance in maize (Zea mays L.) using locally isolated Bacillus sp. SR-2-1/1 - Khadija Rafiq; Muhammad Sohail Akram; Muhammad Shahid; Uzma Qaisar; Naeem Rashid (Biologia, 2020)

Geophysical and geotechnical characterization of shallow subsurface soil: a case study of University of Peshawar and surrounding areas - Ihtisham Islam; Waqas Ahmed; Mehboob Ur Rashid; Azmat Ullah Orakzai; Allah Ditta (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

In vitro evaluation of Cuscuta reflexa Roxb. for thrombolytic, antioxidant, membrane stabilizing and antimicrobial activities - Abul Kalam Azad; Farhina Rahman Laboni; Harun Rashid; Sahena Ferdous; Shah Samiur Rashid; Nurkhalida Kamal; Zubair Khalid Labu; M. S. Islam; Zaidul Islam Sarker (Natural Product Research, 2020)

A novel tonoplast Na+/H+ antiporter gene from date palm (PdNHX6) confers enhanced salt tolerance response in Arabidopsis - Ibtisam Al-Harrasi; Gerry Aplang Jana; Himanshu V. Patankar; Rashid Al-Yahyai; Sivamathini Rajappa; Prakash P. Kumar; Mahmoud W. Yaish (Plant Cell Reports, 2020)

5,6-Diphenyl triazine-thio methyl triazole hybrid as a new Alzheimer’s disease modifying agents - Mahnaz Yazdani; Najmeh Edraki; Rashid Badri; Mehdi Khoshneviszadeh; Aida Iraji; Omidreza Firuzi (Molecular Diversity, 2020)

Analysis of historical dataset based on Rennell’s map on Ganges River basin - Nusrat Jahan Ety; Shahedur Rashid (Journal of Coastal Conservation, 2020)

Foliage applied proline induces salt tolerance in chili genotypes by regulating photosynthetic attributes, ionic homeostasis, and antioxidant defense mechanisms - Madiha Butt; Abdul Sattar; Tahira Abbas; Ahmad Sher; Muhammad Ijaz; Sami Ul-Allah; Muhammad Rashid Shaheen; Fawad Kaleem (Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology, 2020)

Facile synthesis of chitosan-modified ZnO/ZnFe2O4 nanocomposites for effective remediation of groundwater fluoride - Gautam Kumar Sarma; Raju Sharma; Rosy Saikia; Xavy Borgohain; Saddam Iraqui; Krishna Gopal Bhattacharyya; Md. Harunar Rashid (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Laboratory modelling of strength and deformation characteristics of a high swelling soil treated with industrial wastes - Javairia Mumtaz; Imtiaz Rashid; Jahanzaib Israr (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

End Overfishing and Increase the Resilience of the Ocean to Climate Change - U. Rashid Sumaila; Travis C. Tai (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020)

Bearing capacity performance of soft cohesive soil treated by kenaf limited life geotextile - Ahmad Safuan A Rashid; Mohammad Gharehzadeh Shirazi; Ramli Nazir; Hisham Mohamad; Fauzan Sahdi; Suksun Horpibulsuk (Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, 2020)

The impact of foreign direct investment on sustainable development in China - Emmanuel Caesar Ayamba; Chen Haibo; Abdul-Rashid Abdul-Rahaman; Obobisa Emma Serwaa; Andrew Osei-Agyemang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Agricultural soils a trigger to nitrous oxide: a persuasive greenhouse gas and its management - Shazia Ramzan; Tabasum Rasool; Rouf Ahmad Bhat; Pervez Ahmad; Ifra Ashraf; Nowsheeba Rashid; Mifta ul Shafiq; Ikhlaq A. Mir (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2020)

Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Metal Contaminants in Soils Along Two Major Roads - Hina Batool; Mumtaz Hussain; Mansoor Hameed; Rashid Ahmad (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2020)

Landslide susceptibility analysis of Karakoram highway using analytical hierarchy process and scoops 3D - Barira Rashid; Javed Iqbal; Li-jun Su (Journal of Mountain Science, 2020)

Channel bar development and bankline migration of the Lower Padma River of Bangladesh - Md. Bazlar Rashid (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Study of sunspot cycles using fractal dimensions: wave-spectrum scaling - Asma Zaffar; Shaheen Abbas; Muhammad Rashid Kamal Ansari (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Female spider aggression is associated with genetic underpinnings of the nervous system and immune response to pathogens - Chia‐chen Chang; Heidi Connahs; Estella Cai Yu Tan; Y. Norma‐Rashid; Mrinalini; Daiqin Li; Fook Tim Chew (Molecular Ecology, 2020)
Identifying the genetic architecture underlying phenotypic variation in natural populations and assessing the consequences of polymorphisms for individual fitness are fundamental goals in evolutionary and molecular ecology. Consistent between‐individual differences in behaviour have been documented for a variety of taxa. Dissecting the genetic basis of such behavioural differences is however a challenging endeavour. The molecular underpinnings of natural variation in aggression remain elusive. Here, we used comparative gene expression (transcriptome analysis and RT–PCR), genetic association analysis and pharmacological experiments to gain insight into the genetic basis of aggression in wild‐caught jumping spiders ( Portia labiata ). We show that spider aggression is associated with a putative viral infection response gene, BTB/POZ domain‐containing protein 17 (BTBDH), in addition to a putative serotonin receptor 1A (5‐HT1A) gene. Spider aggression varies with virus loads, and BTBDH is upregulated in docile spiders and exhibits a genetic variant associated with aggression. We also identify a putative serotonin receptor 5‐HT1A gene upregulated in docile P. labiata . Individuals that have been treated with serotonin become less aggressive, but individuals treated with a nonselective serotonin receptor antagonist (methiothepin) also reduce aggression. Further, we identify the genetic variants in the 5‐HT1A gene that are associated with individual variation in aggression. We therefore conclude that co‐evolution of the immune and nervous systems may have shaped the between‐individual variation in aggression in natural populations of jumping spiders.

Nanotechnology interventions in aquaculture and seafood preservation - Aamir Hussain Dar; Nowsheeba Rashid; Ishrat Majid; Shafat Hussain; Muneer Ahmed Dar (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2020)

Calcium-mediated adaptive responses to low phosphorus stress in Chinese fir - Muhammad Haroon U. Rashid; Mulualem Tigabu; Haifeng Chen; Taimoor Hassan Farooq; Xiangqing Ma; Pengfei Wu (Trees, 2020)

Correction to: Preconditioning of Human Decidua Basalis Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells with Glucose Increased Their Engraftment and Anti-diabetic Properties - Yasser Basmaeil; Manar Al Rashid; Tanvir Khatlani; Manal AlShabibi; Eman Bahattab; Meshan L. Abdullah; Fawaz Abomaray; Bill Kalionis; Safia Massoudi; Mohamed Abumaree (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2020)
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Taking stock: a Large Marine Ecosystem perspective of socio-economic and ecological trends in East China Sea fisheries - Louise S. L. Teh; Tim Cashion; William W. L. Cheung; U. Rashid Sumaila (Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2020)

Abundance, type, and origin of litter on No. 1 Bathing Beach of Qingdao, China - Rashid Pervez; Yonghong Wang; Qaisar Mahmood; Muhammad Zahir; Zafarullah Jattak (Journal of Coastal Conservation, 2020)

Sustainability of brackish groundwater utilization from the Eocene Aquifer for oil exploration operations in central Kuwait - A. Aliewi; H. Al-Enezi; I. Al-Maheimid; J. Al-Kandari; A. Al-Haddad; H. Al-Qallaf; T. Rashid; D. Sadeqi (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2020)

Protective Effect of RIVA Against Sunitinib-Induced Cardiotoxicity by Inhibiting Oxidative Stress-Mediated Inflammation: Probable Role of TGF-β and Smad Signaling - Faisal Imam; Naif Obaid Al-Harbi; Mohammad Rashid Khan; Wajhul Qamar; Metab Alharbi; Ali A. Alshamrani; Hussain N. Alhamami; Nasser Bader Alsaleh; Khalid Saad Alharbi (Cardiovascular Toxicology, 2020)

Proteomic sift through serum and endometrium profiles unraveled signature proteins associated with subdued fertility and dampened endometrial receptivity in women with polycystic ovary syndrome - Nadia Rashid; Aruna Nigam; S.K. Jain; Samar Husain Naqvi; Saima Wajid (Cell and Tissue Research, 2020)

Correction to: Review of Landsat False Color Composite Images for Lithological Mapping of Pre-Cambrian to Recent Rocks: A Case Study of Pail/Padhrar Area in Punjab Province, Pakistan - Rizwan Saqib Bajwa; Naveed Ahsan; Sajid Rashid Ahmad (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2020)

A Review of Landsat False Color Composite Images for Lithological Mapping of Pre-Cambrian to Recent Rocks: A Case Study of Pail/Padhrar Area in Punjab Province, Pakistan - Rizwan Saqib Bajwa; Naveed Ahsan; Sajid Rashid Ahmad (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2020)

Effect of regular precooling on adaptation to training in the heat - Hui C. Choo; Jeremiah J. Peiffer; Joel W. J. Pang; Frankie H. Y. Tan; Abdul Rashid Aziz; Mohammed Ihsan; Jason K. W. Lee; Chris R. Abbiss (European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2020)

An unintended challenge of microplastic pollution in the urban surface water system of Lahore, Pakistan - Muhammad Irfan; Abdul Qadir; Mehvish Mumtaz; Sajid Rashid Ahmad (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Assessing environmental impacts of large centralized wastewater treatment plants with combined or separate sewer systems in dry/wet seasons by using LCA - Siti Safirah Rashid; Yong-Qiang Liu (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)
Rainfall can affect influent flow rate and compositions of wastewater, and thus further affect wastewater treatment performance and the effluent quality. This study aims to study the influence of rainfall on the environmental impacts of centralized wastewater treatment plants. The correlations between rainfall, and influent flow rate and compositions of wastewater in wet and dry seasons with two sewer systems, i.e. combined and separate sewer systems, were primarily established. Environmental impacts were assessed with life cycle assessment (LCA) to understand the temporal environmental burdens in wet and dry seasons. Functional units as per m 3 treated wastewater (FU1) and as per kg PO 4 3 -eq. removed (FU2), respectively, were used to evaluate impacts of wastewater treatment to the environment. Strong correlation between rainfall and the influent flow rate was found in the wastewater treatment plants with either a combined sewer system (with Pearson correlation coefficient r at 0.66) or a separate sewer system (with r at 0.84), where r represents the strength of the association between two variables. The rainfall effect is more obvious on the eutrophication potential and global warming potential than on other environmental indicators while sewer system, i.e. combined or separate, seems not important in the two cases studied. Both wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) show a lower environmental burden in the wet season than in the dry season partially due to the dilution of wastewater by using FU1. The WWTP receiving high strength wastewater, however, demonstrates higher environmental impacts in the wet season by using FU2 than FU1, due to the less efficient treatment caused by heavy rainfall. Meanwhile, it is found that environmental impacts from the WWTP receiving low strength wastewater have no difference when using either FU1 or FU2. The results indicate that the environmental burdens particularly eutrophication and global warming caused by WWTPs are dependent on the correlations of rainfall intensity with wastewater quantity and quality instead of combined or separate sewer system. This could be used to guide a stricter control of eutrophication in a more sensitive season in more vulnerable receiving waters.

A modeling and numerical simulation study of enhanced CO2 sequestration into deep saline formation: a strategy towards climate change mitigation - Rashid Mohamed Mkemai; Gong Bin (Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2020)

Preconditioning of Human Decidua Basalis Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells with Glucose Increased Their Engraftment and Anti-diabetic Properties - Yasser Basmaeil; Manar Al Rashid; Tanvir Khatlani; Manal AlShabibi; Eman Bahattab; Meshan L. Abdullah; Fawaz Abumary; Bill Kalionis; Safia Massoudi; Mohammad AbuMaree (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2020)
Background: Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) from the decidua basalis (DBMSCs) of the human placenta have important functions that make them potential candidates for cellular therapy. Previously, we showed that DBMSC functions do not change significantly in a high oxidative stress environment, which was induced by hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) and immune cells. Here, we studied the consequences of glucose, another oxidative stress inducer, on the phenotypic and functional changes in DBMSCs. Methods: DBMSCs were exposed to a high level of glucose, and its effect on DBMSC phenotypic and functional properties was determined. DBMSC expression of oxidative stress and immune molecules after exposure to glucose were also identified. Results: Conditioning of DBMSCs with glucose improved their adhesion and invasion. Glucose also increased DBMSC expression of genes with survival, proliferation, migration, invasion, anti-inflammatory, anti-chemoattractant and antimicrobial properties. In addition, DBMSC expression of B7H4, an inhibitor of T cell proliferation was also enhanced by glucose. Interestingly, glucose modulated DBMSC expression of genes involved in insulin secretion and prevention of diabetes. Conclusion: These data show the potentially beneficial effects of glucose on DBMSC functions. Preconditioning of DBMSCs with glucose may therefore be a rational strategy for increasing their therapeutic potential by enhancing their engraftment efficiency. In addition, glucose may program DBMSCs into insulin producing cells with ability to counteract inflammation and infection associated with diabetes. However, future in vitro and in vivo studies are essential to investigate the findings of this study further.

Gene cloning and characterization of Tk1281, a flap endonuclease 1 from Thermococcus kodakarensis - Hira Muzzamal; Qurat ul Ain; Muhammad Sulaiman Saeed; Naeem Rashid (Folia Microbiologica, 2020)

Selective and simultaneous detection of cadmium, lead and copper by tapioca-derived carbon dot–modified electrode - Musa Yahaya Pudza; Zurina Zainal Abidin; Suraya Abdul-Rashid; Faizah Md Yasin; Ahmad Shukri Muhammad Noor; Jaafar Abdullah (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Oxidative stress risk assessment through heavy metal and arsenic exposure in terrestrial and aquatic bird species of Pakistan - Shamsa Kanwal; Naeem Akhtar Abbasi; Muhammad Jamshed Iqbal Chaudhry; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Riffat Naseem Malik (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Volatilization characteristics of selenium during conventional and microwave drying of coal slime: an emerging contaminant in mining industry - Habib Ullah; Asfandyar Shahab; Audil Rashid (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Spatiotemporal variability of erosion and accretion in Ganges River using GIS and RS: a comparative study overlapping Rennell’s map of 1760s - Nusrat Jahan Ety; Md. Shahedur Rashid (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2020)

Transcriptomic analysis of root specific drought mediated response of G. arboreum and G. hirsutum - Zarnab Ahmad; Sajjad Sadique; Muhammad B. Sarwar; Bushra Rashid; Sameera Hassan; Sultana Rasheed; Khurram Bashir; Motoaki Seki; Tayyab Husnain (Biologia, 2020)

Goat milk attenuates mimetic aging related memory impairment via suppressing brain oxidative stress, neurodegeneration and modulating neurotrophic factors in d-galactose-induced aging model - Afifa Safdar; Rahimah Zakaria; Che Badariah Ab Aziz; Usman Rashid; Khairunnuur Fairuz Azman (Biogerontology, 2020)

The prebiotic potential of brewers’ spent grain on livestock’s health: a review - Emanuel Joel Lao; Noel Dimoso; Jofrey Raymond; Ernest Rashid Mbega (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2020)

Identification and validation of superior housekeeping gene(s) for qRT-PCR data normalization in Agave sisalana (a CAM-plant) under abiotic stresses - Muhammad Bilal Sarwar; Zarnab Ahmad; Batcho Agossa Anicet; Moon Sajid; Bushra Rashid; Sameera Hassan; Mukhtar Ahmed; Tayyab Husnain (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2020)

Status of urban hydrogeology research with emphasis on India - Ilma Arshad; Rashid Umar (Hydrogeology Journal, 2020)

Organochlorine pesticides in the surrounding soils of POPs destruction facility: source fingerprinting, human health, and ecological risks assessment - Syeda Nazish Ali; Mujtaba Baqar; Mehvish Mumtaz; Uzma Ashraf; Muhammad Naveed Anwar; Abdul Qadir; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Abdul-Sattar Nizami; Huang Jun (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Concomitant Treatment of Tannery and Paper Mill Effluents Using Extremely Metal-Tolerant Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria - Muhammad Muneeb; Muhammad Rashid; Arshad Javid; Syed Mohsin Bukhari; Waqas Ali; Ali Hasan; Muhammad Akmal; Ali Hussain (Environmental Processes, 2020)

Valorization of solid waste biomass by inoculation for the enhanced yield of biogas - Yasir Abbas; Farrukh Jamil; Sikander Rafiq; Moinuddin Ghauri; M. Shahzad Khurram; Muhammad Aslam; Awais Bokhari; Abrar Faisal; Umer Rashid; Sining Yun; Muhammad Mubeen (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2020)

Coagulation- and Adsorption-Based Environmental Impact Assessment and Textile Effluent Treatment - Muhammad Aleem; Jiashun Cao; Chao Li; Haroon Rashid; Yang Wu; Muhammad Imran Nawaz; Muhammad Abbas; Muhammad Waqar Akram (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2020)

Inhibition of polo-like kinase 1 suppresses microtubule dynamics in MCF-7 cells - Aijaz Rashid; Afsana Naaz; Ankit Rai; Biswa Prasun Chatterji; Dulal Panda (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2020)

An overview of 25 years of research on Thermococcus kodakarensis, a genetically versatile model organism for archaeal research - Naeem Rashid; Mehwish Aslam (Folia Microbiologica, 2020)

A geospatial approach for limnological characterization of Nigeen Lake, Kashmir Himalaya - Shahid Ahmad Dar; Sami Ullah Bhat; Sheikh Aneaus; Irfan Rashid (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2020)

Modeling arsenic removal by nanoscale zero-valent iron - Umma S. Rashid; Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat; Achintya N. Bezbaruah (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2020)

Correction to: Synthesis and Biodistribution Study of Biocompatible 198Au Nanoparticles by use of Arabinoxylan as Reducing and Stabilizing Agent - Fozia Iram; Mohammad S. Iqbal; Irfan U. Khan; Rashid Rasheed; Aqsa Khalid; Muhammad Khalid; Saira Aftab; Abdul R. Shakoori (Biological Trace Element Research, 2020)

Correlation of MLH1 polymorphisms, survival statistics, in silico assessment and gene downregulation with clinical outcomes among breast cancer cases - Saima Shakil Malik; Ayisha Zia; Sumaira Mubarik; Nosheen Masood; Sajid Rashid; Alice Sherrard; Muhammad Bilal Khan; Muhammad Tahir Khadim (Molecular Biology Reports, 2020)

Human health risks by potentially toxic metals in drinking water along the Hattar Industrial Estate, Pakistan - Shah Jehan; Seema Anjum Khattak; Said Muhammad; Liaqat Ali; Abdur Rashid; Mian Luqman Hussain (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Synthesis and Biodistribution Study of Biocompatible 198Au Nanoparticles by use of Arabinoxylan as Reducing and Stabilizing Agent - Fozia Iram; Mohammad S. Iqbal; Irfan U. Khan; Rashid Rasheed; Aqsa Khalid; Muhammad Khalid; Saira Aftab; Abdul R. Shakoori (Biological Trace Element Research, 2020)

Molecular cloning of putative chloroplastic cysteine synthase in Leucaena leucocephala - Md. Harun-Ur-Rashid; Shigeki Oogai; Shahanaz Parveen; Masashi Inafuku; Hironori Iwasaki; Masakazu Fukuta; Md. Amzad Hossain; Hirosuke Oku (Journal of Plant Research, 2020)